Re: resetting clock after power outage

2006-05-08 Thread Nick Withers
On Mon, 8 May, 2006 2:10 pm, jekillen wrote: Hello; I have a problem that I can't, so far find and answer to. How do you reset the system clock after a power outage has caused it to loose time? Have a gander at date(1), if NTP isn't a goer, as others have suggested. (snip) I thought maybe

Re: The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2006-05-08 Thread Eric Dan
* Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 10:22:11 +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: I have found a problem. I find the design / typesetting to be very unprofessional. It looks like a teenager wrote it, in Microsoft Word, but no offense. You just used the

Re: build failure

2006-05-08 Thread Pablo Mora
config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC:72: syntax error ?? line 72.. check it. -- Linux is for people who hate Micro$oft. BSD is for people who love Unix ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2006-05-08 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 07 May 2006 22:39, Eric Dan wrote: * Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 10:22:11 +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: I have found a problem. I find the design / typesetting to be very unprofessional. It looks like a teenager wrote it, in

SMBus and mbmon

2006-05-08 Thread Scott Sipe
First time I've tried to access smb devices or used mbmon, so apologies if this is very stupid. Running 6.0-stable (from awhile ago, December) on an Intel server motherboard. In the boot dmesg I get this line: pci0: serial bus, SMBus at device 31.3 (no driver attached) I have nothing

Re: Can't build bash3.1 during portupgrade -a

2006-05-08 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Garrett Cooper wrote: Michael D. Norwick wrote: freebsd 6.1 RELEASE Compaq Proliant SMP PII-200 (smp modified kernel) ...snip /usr/ports/distfiles/bash from ftp4.us and re-ran portupgrade -a. It stopped again with the same error. What is happening here? = MD5 Checksum mismatch for

7-CURRENT

2006-05-08 Thread Perttu Laine
I have 7-CURRENT-SNAP009 on one testing computer and I'd like to update it to latest 7 sources. So can it be done via cvsup or how can update sources to latest? RELENG_7 seems to just delete everything with cvsup... -- kpn @ IRCnet ___

Re: 7-CURRENT

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Perttu, Monday, May 8, 2006, 1:02:07 PM, you typed: I have 7-CURRENT-SNAP009 on one testing computer and I'd like to update it to latest 7 sources. So can it be done via cvsup or how can update sources to latest? RELENG_7 seems to just delete everything with cvsup... yeah, cvsup is

Re: 7-CURRENT

2006-05-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-05-08 14:02, Perttu Laine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 7-CURRENT-SNAP009 on one testing computer and I'd like to update it to latest 7 sources. So can it be done via cvsup or how can update sources to latest? RELENG_7 seems to just delete everything with cvsup... There is no

Fwd: 7-CURRENT

2006-05-08 Thread Perttu Laine
.. Thank's. work fine. Now I have another question about 7-CURRENT. portupgrade and portversion are giving this error: --- uname(1) could be broken - cannot parse the output: 7-CURRENT-SNAP009 i386 ** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf: uninitialized constant

Re: Convert mbox to IMAP files

2006-05-08 Thread Chris Howells
On Monday 08 May 2006 04:03, Carlos Silva wrote: Someone know how can I convert mbox files to IMAP files? Thanks in advance! I presume you wish to store mails in mbox format on an IMAP server. The easiest way is to import the mails into a mail client, such as KMail, set up an account in KMail

Re: Fetch Problems...

2006-05-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jeff Molofee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having some odd problems with fetch. If I pkg_add or attempt portupgrade, portmanage, etc, I get endless errors about fetch operation timed out. I am able to ping the sites by ip and name, I am able to ftp to the site, open the sites in firefox,

Re: Convert mbox to IMAP files

2006-05-08 Thread Marcel de Reuver
On Sunday 07 May 2006 23:03, Carlos Silva wrote: Hi, Someone know how can I convert mbox files to IMAP files? Thanks in advance! Google for mbox2maildir if you want to convert to the Maildir format. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-08 Thread Bryan Curl
Ok I'll bite. I installed fetchmail and fairly quickly had it retreiving mail into system. I installed mutt and spent 2 hours looking at man and muttrc. Wow. What I dont get is how mutt replies to mail I retrived from ' mywork.mailserver.com'. I have to use '' to send the mail. I think I do it

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-08 Thread albi
On Mon, 8 May 2006 07:14:05 -0600 Bryan Curl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mutt sends mail as usual. Then, fetchmail -S smtp.myispmailserver.net The mail bounces from myispmailserver.net with an error like [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my private domain) is urecognized domain. (exact message escapes me at

ibsh shell session fails using scp/sftp

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Trying to use WinSCP to connect using the ibsh shell. The logs in the WinSCP program indicate 'Connection failed. Server sent command exit status 0', but I cannot find anything in the FreeBSD logs. I am hoping to find where my FreeBSD 6.0 box is trying to execute a command so I can add it to the

Re: The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2006-05-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
* Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 10:22:11 +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: i think the book is great, easy to read, helped me a lot and also saved me a lot of time. I hope you're gonna eventually write a new edition that covers 6.* releases.

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-08 Thread guru
El día Monday, May 08, 2006 a las 03:23:30PM +0200, albi escribió: On Mon, 8 May 2006 07:14:05 -0600 Bryan Curl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mutt sends mail as usual. Then, fetchmail -S smtp.myispmailserver.net The mail bounces from myispmailserver.net with an error like [EMAIL

Re: ibsh shell session fails using scp/sftp

2006-05-08 Thread Bill Moran
On Mon, 08 May 2006 09:28:54 -0400 Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to use WinSCP to connect using the ibsh shell. The logs in the WinSCP program indicate 'Connection failed. Server sent command exit status 0', but I cannot find anything in the FreeBSD logs. I am hoping to

Re: X11 6.9 issue -- option XkbOptions and missing keyboard layout

2006-05-08 Thread Dejan Lesjak
On Monday 08 May 2006 02:34, martinko wrote: hello list! i've just upgraded X11 from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0 and after starting up X11 it displays a message saying that xkbcomp reports that it cannot find file pc/sk_qwerty. and therefore it reverts back to default or something. this is very strange

RE: Substitute command on vi

2006-05-08 Thread Ilias Sachpazidis
I use the following: :.,$s/^M//g For ^M, you have to press Ctrl-V and then Enter Best regards, Ilias --- Fraunhofer IGD Department Cognitive Computing Medical Imaging Ilias Sachpazidis phone:+49/(0)/6151/155 507 Fraunhoferstr. 5 fax

Re: Next VNC related question ... recording

2006-05-08 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
On 5/7/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are ppl using for this? I'm trying vnc2swf, but wonder if there is something that records to a better (ie. non windows) format that works well under FreeBSD? Thx Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services

Re: ibsh shell session fails using scp/sftp

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 09:39 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Trying to use WinSCP to connect using the ibsh shell. The logs in the WinSCP program indicate 'Connection failed. Server sent command exit status 0', but I cannot find anything in the FreeBSD logs. I am hoping to find where my FreeBSD

FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE !!

2006-05-08 Thread Jonathan Horne
on a dev box, did a cvsup and buildworld yesterday... and now my kernel says 6.1 stable! fbsd60-2# uname -a FreeBSD fbsd60-2.dev.dfwlp.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sun May 7 18:33:48 CDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FBSD60-2 i386 *shrug* i look on freebsd.org, but i

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE !!

2006-05-08 Thread Eric Schuele
Jonathan Horne wrote: on a dev box, did a cvsup and buildworld yesterday... and now my kernel says 6.1 stable! fbsd60-2# uname -a FreeBSD fbsd60-2.dev.dfwlp.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sun May 7 18:33:48 CDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FBSD60-2 i386 *shrug* i

RE: php4 port upgrade

2006-05-08 Thread Zimmerman, Eric
Hello, Is there any known issues or things to watch out for when doing the latest php4 upgrade? The notes in the UPDATING file indicated a change in the status of the .cli binary. If one has mod_php4 and the php4-extensions already installed is the upgrade a smooth one? Thanks. Dave.

Re: X11 6.9 issue -- option XkbOptions and missing keyboard layout

2006-05-08 Thread martinko
Dejan Lesjak wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 02:34, martinko wrote: hello list! i've just upgraded X11 from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0 and after starting up X11 it displays a message saying that xkbcomp reports that it cannot find file pc/sk_qwerty. and therefore it reverts back to default or

Re: ibsh

2006-05-08 Thread Atom Powers
Have you looked at the scponly shell? On 5/7/06, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 12:32 -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Anyone using ibsh shell for locking users in to their home directory? I just found out about this googling and installed the port on my

Re: nsswitch.conf with ldap

2006-05-08 Thread Atom Powers
On 5/7/06, Z.C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:56:09 +0100 Dominique Goncalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why FreeBSD tries to use ldap database if my user system is on files ? Thanks for the help. Did you ever find a fix for this? I am running into the same thing myself.

Re: php4 port upgrade

2006-05-08 Thread Julien Gabel
Is there any known issues or things to watch out for when doing the latest php4 upgrade? The notes in the UPDATING file indicated a change in the status of the .cli binary. If one has mod_php4 and the php4-extensions already installed is the upgrade a smooth one? Mine seemed to go fine via

seamonkey -- building calendar (option)

2006-05-08 Thread martinko
hello! i've just upgraded from mozilla (1.7.12) to seamonkey (1.0.1) and discovered the following issue: there's WITH_CALENDAR make switch in the port which is/was supposed to turn building of mozilla with calendar module. i've been happily using it with mozilla suite. the switch is still in

status BSDinstaller for FreeBSD

2006-05-08 Thread albi
some weeks ago there was an announcement which mentioned the new BSDinstaller Beta2, which pointed to to this url : http://meonstuff.blogspot.com/ i've downloaded the iso and tried it, and i started to realise how much i like the current FreeBSD installer what i miss in the beta2 of the

Re: Can't build bash3.1 during portupgrade -a

2006-05-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Michael D. Norwick wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: Michael D. Norwick wrote: freebsd 6.1 RELEASE Compaq Proliant SMP PII-200 (smp modified kernel) ...snip /usr/ports/distfiles/bash from ftp4.us and re-ran portupgrade -a. It stopped again with the same error. What is happening here?

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE !!

2006-05-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On 8/5/06 15:39, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a dev box, did a cvsup and buildworld yesterday... and now my kernel says 6.1 stable! fbsd60-2# uname -a FreeBSD fbsd60-2.dev.dfwlp.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sun May 7 18:33:48 CDT 2006 [EMAIL

could not determine fs type - fsck

2006-05-08 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I replaced a disk that had trouble with fsck in a 5.3 system and connected it to a 5.2.1 system for further examinaton. starting fsck /dev/ad3 gave me an error: could not determine file system type. Had there been some change in FS right between FreeBSD 5.2 and 5.3 such that either systems

Re: seamonkey -- building calendar (option)

2006-05-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
martinko wrote: hello! i've just upgraded from mozilla (1.7.12) to seamonkey (1.0.1) and discovered the following issue: there's WITH_CALENDAR make switch in the port which is/was supposed to turn building of mozilla with calendar module. i've been happily using it with mozilla suite. the

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-08 Thread Bryan Curl
If that just fixes From in the header Im not sure that is entirely my problem. Since my bounces seem to be related to my localhost domain name, I wonder about a setting like described here from sendmail's manual. You can have your host masquerade as another using MASQUERADE_AS(`host.domain')

Re: seamonkey -- building calendar (option)

2006-05-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
martinko wrote: hello! i've just upgraded from mozilla (1.7.12) to seamonkey (1.0.1) and discovered the following issue: there's WITH_CALENDAR make switch in the port which is/was supposed to turn building of mozilla with calendar module. i've been happily using it with mozilla suite. the

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-08 Thread albi
On Mon, 8 May 2006 10:10:24 -0600 Bryan Curl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that just fixes From in the header Im not sure that is entirely my problem. Since my bounces seem to be related to my localhost domain name, I wonder about a setting like described here from sendmail's manual. You can

freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2006-05-08 Thread Marty Landman
I've just reinstalled FBSD 4.8 from the mini-iso on an old box (PII-133 w/ 3 GB on two hd's). The problem I'm running into is that my ports are looking for old, outdated packages, I think. So going from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.htmltried to install

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE !!

2006-05-08 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 08 May 2006 10:55, Ceri Davies wrote: On 8/5/06 15:39, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a dev box, did a cvsup and buildworld yesterday... and now my kernel says 6.1 stable! fbsd60-2# uname -a FreeBSD fbsd60-2.dev.dfwlp.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sun May

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE !!

2006-05-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:44:15AM -0500, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 10:55, Ceri Davies wrote: On 8/5/06 15:39, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a dev box, did a cvsup and buildworld yesterday... and now my kernel says 6.1 stable! fbsd60-2# uname -a

Re: php4 port upgrade

2006-05-08 Thread Julien Gabel
Is there any known issues or things to watch out for when doing the latest php4 upgrade? The notes in the UPDATING file indicated a change in the status of the .cli binary. If one has mod_php4 and the php4-extensions already installed is the upgrade a smooth one? Mine seemed to go fine via

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2006-05-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Marty Landman wrote: I've just reinstalled FBSD 4.8 from the mini-iso on an old box (PII-133 w/ 3 GB on two hd's). The problem I'm running into is that my ports are looking for old, outdated packages, I think. So going from

RE: Problem with cordless mouse/Keyboard combo set

2006-05-08 Thread Stephanie Bridges
Lennon Cook wrote: Stephanie Bridges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the same problem with the mouse (would occasionally move the cursor, never any clicks) until I accidentally got the receiver closer to the mouse. I now have the receiver about three inches away from the mouse. Works

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2006-05-08 Thread Greg Barniskis
Marty Landman wrote: I've just reinstalled FBSD 4.8 from the mini-iso on an old box (PII-133 w/ 3 GB on two hd's). The problem I'm running into is that my ports are looking for old, outdated packages, I think. So going from

Re: could not determine fs type - fsck

2006-05-08 Thread Victor Lundwall
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I replaced a disk that had trouble with fsck in a 5.3 system and connected it to a 5.2.1 system for further examinaton. starting fsck /dev/ad3 gave me an error: could not determine file system type. Had there been some change in FS right between FreeBSD 5.2 and

Re: 7-CURRENT

2006-05-08 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Perttu Laine thusly... Thank's. work fine. Now I have another question about 7-CURRENT. portupgrade and portversion are giving this error: --- uname(1) could be broken - cannot parse the output: 7-CURRENT-SNAP009 i386 ** Error occured reading

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2006-05-08 Thread Marty Landman
On 5/8/06, Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marty Landman wrote: I've just reinstalled FBSD 4.8 from the mini-iso on an old box (PII-133 w/ 3 GB on two hd's). The problem I'm running into is that my ports are looking for old, outdated packages, I think. If you have enough RAM, go

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2006-05-08 Thread Greg Barniskis
Marty Landman wrote: On 5/8/06, Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marty Landman wrote: I've just reinstalled FBSD 4.8 from the mini-iso on an old box (PII-133 w/ 3 GB on two hd's). The problem I'm running into is that my ports are looking for old, outdated packages, I think. If

Re: php4 port upgrade

2006-05-08 Thread Beat.Siegenthaler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 cacti and roundcube is broken. Has something to do with php-session. portupgrade -Rf php4 didn't solve the problem. still searching.. Dave wrote: Hello, Is there any known issues or things to watch out for when doing the latest php4 upgrade?

Enable plugin nppdf.so in firefox?

2006-05-08 Thread cblasius
Hello! I've a problem with plugin to view PDF file in firefox. Could someone help me? Wehen I run firefox from command line I obtain this message: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2006-05-08 Thread Marty Landman
On 5/8/06, Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have enough RAM, go ahead and install 5.4 or 6.0 (or soon enough, 6.1 ). This box has 82M of ram, forgot to mention that. According to the fine manual, you should be able to boot from a floppy and install 6.0 over FTP. This

Requiring Manual FSCK -y

2006-05-08 Thread Wil Hatfield
It seems that my FBSD 6.1 machines are requiring a shell and manual fsck -y after a kernel panic and dump. Is there any way to automate this so that I don't have to get the guys at the datacenter to do it for me? -- Wil Hatfield ___

Re: Requiring Manual FSCK -y

2006-05-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 08 May 2006 17:19, Wil Hatfield wrote: It seems that my FBSD 6.1 machines are requiring a shell and manual fsck -y after a kernel panic and dump. Is there any way to automate this so that I don't have to get the guys at the datacenter to do it for me? %grep fsck

RE: Requiring Manual FSCK -y

2006-05-08 Thread Wil Hatfield
background_fsck=YES Perfect thank you. -- Wil Hatfield ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: build failure

2006-05-08 Thread mario
So, Pablo Mora wrote: config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC:72: syntax error ?? line 72.. check it. Pablo, thanks for your reply. It turns out i was running cvsup on my 6-release with *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 This crept in from my old 4.11 setup. Good thing it stopped right there.

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2006-05-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Marty Landman wrote: This is giving me problems for some reason. I've put the floppy images on a Debian box in my office and dd'd onto a floppy. The boot.flp worked but then with the kern1.flp - which I dd'd onto the same floppy as boot.flp had gone on, get this after a while: zf_read: fill

Re: bad floppy disks

2006-05-08 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 8 May 2006 it looks like Kevin Kinsey composed: Marty Landman wrote: This is giving me problems for some reason. I've put the floppy images on a Debian box in my office and dd'd onto a floppy. The boot.flp worked but then with the kern1.flp - which I dd'd onto the same floppy

Re: nsswitch.conf with ldap

2006-05-08 Thread Z.C.B.
On Mon, 8 May 2006 08:27:33 -0700 Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/06, Z.C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:56:09 +0100 Dominique Goncalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why FreeBSD tries to use ldap database if my user system is on files ? Thanks for the

Re: Problem with cordless mouse/Keyboard combo set

2006-05-08 Thread Lennon Cook
Stephanie Bridges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a /dev/ums0 (my usb mouse device)? This exists only when my other mouse (the working one) is plugged in, and I have no other /dev/ums* . Also, even when my mouse didn't really work, disconnecting/reconnecting the receiver from the usb

Re: nsswitch.conf with ldap

2006-05-08 Thread Atom Powers
On 5/8/06, Z.C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 May 2006 08:27:33 -0700 Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/06, Z.C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:56:09 +0100 Dominique Goncalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why FreeBSD tries to use ldap database if my

Auto mount/unmount USB hard drive

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a USB hard drive mounting and working fine. I have the following entry in /etc/fstab that allows it to work on boot. The device loads as /dev/da4. But if I disconnect without unmounting the device, it detaches, but when plugged back in, it receives a new device as /dev/da5, which is not

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
guru wrote: El día Monday, May 08, 2006 a las 03:23:30PM +0200, albi escribió: On Mon, 8 May 2006 07:14:05 -0600 Bryan Curl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mutt sends mail as usual. Then, fetchmail -S smtp.myispmailserver.net The mail bounces from myispmailserver.net with an error

Re: nsswitch.conf with ldap

2006-05-08 Thread Z.C.B.
On Mon, 8 May 2006 16:31:04 -0700 Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/8/06, Z.C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 May 2006 08:27:33 -0700 Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/06, Z.C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:56:09 +0100 Dominique

Re: Auto mount/unmount USB hard drive

2006-05-08 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:40:44 -0400 Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a USB hard drive mounting and working fine. I have the following entry in /etc/fstab that allows it to work on boot. The device loads as /dev/da4. But if I disconnect without unmounting the device, it

Re: bad floppy disks

2006-05-08 Thread RW
On Monday 08 May 2006 23:49, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Just last night I was just trying to get three good floppies from a brand new package of 10 to install on a Fujitsu Lifebook with only a floppy and could not believe the failure rate. I wonder if it might have more to do with the fact that

Re: nsswitch.conf with ldap

2006-05-08 Thread Atom Powers
On 5/8/06, Z.C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if it will help your problem, I'm struggling through my own pam/nss/ldap issues, but it is a part of the picture. I am curious. Do you run into problems with SSH and xterm, but everything else works? That is what I am currently

Re: Enable plugin nppdf.so in firefox?

2006-05-08 Thread Kevin G. Eliuk
cblasius wrote: Hello! I've a problem with plugin to view PDF file in firefox. Could someone help me? Wehen I run firefox from command line I obtain this message: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so

setting up pppoe

2006-05-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
People, I found this section in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html and it mentions a ppp.conf file like so default: set log Phase tun command # you can add more detailed logging if you wish set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 08/05/06 albi said: sometimes i use mutt, this is the part in my .muttrc to get the from-address right : set sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -oi -oem That's not really required. set use_from set from=Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] set envelope_from Mike --

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2006-05-08 Thread John Murphy
Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is giving me problems for some reason. I've put the floppy images on a Debian box in my office and dd'd onto a floppy. The boot.flp worked but then with the kern1.flp - which I dd'd onto the same floppy as boot.flp had gone on, get this after a while:

Re: setting up pppoe

2006-05-08 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 8 May 2006 21:05:02 -0400 Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, I found this section in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html and it mentions a ppp.conf file like so default: set log Phase tun command # you can add

Unexpected inconsistency

2006-05-08 Thread Aguiar Magalhaes
Hi, I´ve received the message when the machine with freebsd 6.0 initializes: the following file system had an unexpected inconsistency: ufs: /dev/da0s1g (/data) automatic file system check failed: help! init: /bin/sh on/etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode I'm trying to

Re: Can't build bash3.1 during portupgrade -a

2006-05-08 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Garrett Cooper wrote: Michael D. Norwick wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: Michael D. Norwick wrote: freebsd 6.1 RELEASE Compaq Proliant SMP PII-200 (smp modified kernel) ...snip /usr/ports/distfiles/bash from ftp4.us and re-ran portupgrade -a. It stopped again with the same

Re: nsswitch.conf with ldap

2006-05-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 08), Atom Powers said: On 5/8/06, Z.C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if it will help your problem, I'm struggling through my own pam/nss/ldap issues, but it is a part of the picture. I am curious. Do you run into problems with SSH and xterm, but

Re: Unexpected inconsistency

2006-05-08 Thread Atom Powers
`fsck -y` does not fix *all* inconsistancies, if I recall. you *do* have backups right? try booting into single user mode and running fsck without -y. On 5/8/06, Aguiar Magalhaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I´ve received the message when the machine with freebsd 6.0 initializes: the

Install 6.1 on Sparc64?

2006-05-08 Thread stan
I just decided to try my first non Intel install. I've got a brand new Sun Blad 1500. I downloaded the 2 6.1 RELEAS CD's, burned them just like I do X86 ones, halted teh machine, and typed boot cdrom at the ok prompt, only to be told (very quickly) that the disk was not bootable. Just to verify

Re: nsswitch.conf with ldap

2006-05-08 Thread Atom Powers
On 5/8/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (May 08), Atom Powers said: No, my problem is with local login when the LDAP server is unavailable. It hangs for about two minutes before logging in. I think I've tracked this down to an nss timeout somewhere. Newer version

Re: setting up pppoe

2006-05-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 09/05/06 Joerg Pernfuss said: ppp needs some address to work with right from the beginning, before you get assigned an IP address from your isp. The original idea was, from my understanding, that you could specify your network, and would then only be assigned the host part of the address.

freebsd 6.1rc2 lacks i945 agp support

2006-05-08 Thread netsick
I have a Dell Optiplex 520 using i945 (ICH7) chipset. I have device agp in my kernel but /dev/agpgart is not being setup. This then effects the opertion of Xorg 6.9.x by not allowing it to load DRI and thus no XVideo support. Could someone please help to sort this out. There have been several

Re: nsswitch.conf with ldap

2006-05-08 Thread Z.C.B.
On Mon, 8 May 2006 21:16:20 -0500 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (May 08), Atom Powers said: On 5/8/06, Z.C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if it will help your problem, I'm struggling through my own pam/nss/ldap issues, but it is a part of the

Sendmail, Cyrus-IMAP, mbox, maildir, berkeley-db

2006-05-08 Thread Chris Telting
I am confused as to a number of things so I'd appreciate being straighted out. I keep searching the web and looking at documentation but I'm getting more confused. Sendmail stores mail in mbox format. I'm not sure if it allows other storage formats such as maildir or berkeley-db. And if so